The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering prepares people who will invent the technologies of the future and create solutions to challenges we haven’t even imagined yet. Established in 1898, the School is now among the largest civil and environmental engineering programs in the country. Students on the civil track train to tackle projects like roads and bridges, sure, but they also work on technologies for green buildings, strategies that help us recover from disasters, and projects to alleviate poverty. Environmental engineers may focus on issues like clean drinking water, air-quality monitoring and pollution controls. 

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A student uses the particle image velocimetry laser

A holding tank in the hydro lab is used to study glacial melt.

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Senior civil engineering students mix, test, and cast concrete cylinders as part of a concrete mixing lab taught by Professor of the Practice Fred Meyer.

Senior civil engineering students mix, test, and cast concrete cylinders.

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Lauren Stewart and her students in the Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory

Lauren Stewart and her students in the Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory.